•Randolph County Sheriff Mark Nichols displayed some of the new car and hand held radios purchased recently with a $74,000 communications grant. In addition to the radios, the department has been able to add bullet-proof vests and an electronic fingerprinting scanner.

Thursday, March 6, 2003

•Authorities are looking for a man who fled federal charges that he swindled a Moberly couple, John and Mary Ann Micke, out of $200,000 in a get-rich gold mine scheme. A wire fraud indictment in August also alleged Glen W. Chapman, also known as Ray Glen Wilson of Las Vegas with taking $275,000 from a woman in Texas using the same kind of scheme.

•Moberly South Park School Principal Sherree Burkholder was honored Wednesday morning on Principal's Day by students and teachers lining the halls giving "high fives" and "thumbs up" signaling a job well done as "Hail to the Chief" played over the intercom. The halls were lined with posters featuring Mrs. Burkholder attending meetings, taking care of paper work and interacting with the students. Mrs. Burkholder also received a variety of her favorite Oreo desserts including: Oreo cake, Oreo pudding Oreo cereal, an Oreo corsage and even an Oreo magic wand.

Sunday, March 6, 1988

•Missouri Secretary of State Roy Blunt and Drew Roy, assistant vice president public relations for Southwestern Bell Telephone tried one of the magnifiers being supplied to all Missouri polling places by Southwestern Bell Telephone and Mr. Blunt's office. The magnifiers will be used by the elderly and sight-impaired to read and mark their ballots on Super Tuesday, March 8.

•The Moberly City Council was expecting good news that the Department of Natural Resources has approved the City's Solid Waste Management Plan, set to be announced at the upcoming meeting. Councilmen will also discuss the landfill situation.

•Despite unconfirmed reports that have been going around the Moberly area several days, Randolph County has not recorded an AIDS death. Ted Northrup, head of the Bureau of AIDS Prevention for the Missouri Department of Health, reports there has been no investigation of suspected AIDS cases in mid-Missouri, including Randolph County.

Wednesday, March 6, 1963

•Major J.E. Darwent resigned by letter last night at a meeting of the board of alderman, effective April 2 at Clark. No reasons for his resignation were given in the letter but Mr. Darwent said today that he was "too old to do the job." Mr. Darwent has been mayor of Clark for three years.

•The post office department is seeking competitive bids to build and lease the new post office at Salisbury, Postmaster General J. Edward Day has announced.